HERMIN: A Macro Model Framework for the Study of Cohesion and Transition

In this paper we look back over a period of ten years of international collaborative research on the development of macro modelling for the evaluation of the impacts of National Development Plans (NDPs) and Community Support Frameworks (CSFs). This work started in Ireland in 1989, driven by the evaluation needs of CSF 198993, was then extended via international collaborative research to the other cohesion countries (Greece, Portugal and Spain) during the first half of the 1990s, and was further extended at the end of the 1990s to the analysis of the pre-accession investment aid programmes of the newly liberalised economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). We discuss some of the lessons of this trans-European collaborative effort, drawing in particular on the Irish, Estonian and more recent Hungarian experiences.

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